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Wire, app backed by Skype’s Janus Friis, gets video calls and message encryption(venturebeat.com)
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Yes, just like guns are a cheap, widely available technology and used by criminals and dictators already. I am not advocating drone wars, just saying it will happen; the US finds itself engaged in wars already - often several at a time - al
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If American military develops micro drones that have cameras and other sensors and carry enough firepower to kill a man, they have the key to win gorilla wars like the ones they have had trouble with in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan etc. It wi
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Apple Rejected by U.S. Supreme Court in $450M E-Book Case(bloomberg.com)
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Thanks!
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I would like to see that map with metro areas but with GDP figures (and/or GDP per capita) in stead. I find GDP per capita figures hard to find for cities.
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The US has still only welcomed 2,300 refugees. That is less than Denmark, a country the size of the state of Maryland, received per month this fall. In one week alone, Denmark received 11,000 refugees from the Middle East. I'd like to
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by flexie 11y ago
Temperature is just a part of it. Light is another. And the populated part of Canada - being much more southern than most people realise - has light that compares to southern France, not to Scandinavia or Alaska. Whenever I am back in Scand
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Great with the payment solution. But why would anyone want to pay US corporate tax, US accountants etc. - often on top of the local tax, local accountant etc? Don't forget that many other countries would still regard the "Stripe A
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by flexie 11y ago
Well, I assume you are Swedish. A lot of Swedish people are respected internationally: Zlatan Ibrahimovitch, of Balkan origin, is one. What have you done that compares to what he has done for your country? Nothing, right? Your country has b
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by flexie 11y ago
Please note, that the only ones that have a circulation of near or above one million are the tabloids. So (for now) tabloids can still make money from sale and from advertisement. At the same time, they are cheaper to produce than serious m
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Yes
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'Update' due on gravitational waves(bbc.com)
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Do we know that yet? The article is based on this admission from the Danish minister of Justice (in Danish): http://www.ft.dk/samling/20151/almdel/reu/bilag/163/1596061.... It just mentions the
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Denmark confirms US sent rendition flight for Snowden(thelocal.dk)
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That's the thing: This pod could potentially go 396 km/h given that they are able to lease, buy or expropriate land in a straight enough line allowing them to construct mostly straight tubes miles after miles and given that there
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by flexie 11y ago
But 110 m/s - that's 396 km/h or 246 mph - about the speed of a high speed train in Asia or Europe, give or take. And that is when the pods are empty. Sure, without the friction of the rails and the air you save energy, and m
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by flexie 11y ago
They say it's nicer than my house, but apart from the price I don't see anything nice about it. Honestly it looks really bad. $20,000 is impressively cheap, but like with the iphone making smartphones popular or the Tesla making e
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by flexie 11y ago
I am looking forward to micropayments but I sure hope it will be platform independent. Blendle is just another platform like iTunes, App Store, Netflix etc. Platforms are good for the platform's founders and investors and they take ca
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by flexie 11y ago
Looks super cool and very useful. If anyone thinks that $25 or $50 is expensive for 3 installs, they are just being disingenuous. That's less than most devs charge their clients per hour and tools like this easily save a few hours on e
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by flexie 11y ago
So Facebook makes less than $3.7 per user per quarter or some $15 per user per year. Don't anyone find it amazing how little money they make per user (and still have a good business)? The article doesn't say how much time the user
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French court orders Uber to pay €1.2M to taxi firm(france24.com)
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Funny. I sometimes wish we had a global "state" with general rights to move freely, vote on global issues etc. Then people could organize in tiny city states or whatever within the global state. (now when we are talking fantasies)
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Not on the list and also not profitable yet is all the money pouring into development of self driving cars. They are robots too, aren't they? Maybe the funding from Google, Apple, Uber, Volvo, GM etc. isn't venture capital, strict
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Haha - wonderful :-) More than 3 cm on each side is a waste of space :-)
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The US has had many generations of freee market economy with lots of both good and bad experiences. Still, the Great Depression and the Great Recession happened. I believe we have seen plenty of spectacular stock market crashes in the US as
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I communicate way more face to face rather than through devices. Are you sure you don't do that as well? And communication through phones for hours a day was normal for most people in the 90s too. Even in the 50s.
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Very nice! I really like this kind of teaching :-) Nitpick: If the model universe is a square that is 100 meters across as said in one of the first lessons, it's area is not 100m2 as stated in one of the next lessons.
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That article is just a bunch of prejudices. And I say that as a Dane. I am sure American, French or Spanish programmers think for themselves too and that they also take pride in their work. First of all, a number of nations in Northern Euro
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Reconsider(m.signalvnoise.com)
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